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Do I have "healthy" PMO?

Discussion in 'Porn Addiction' started by secretthrowaway, Dec 3, 2018.

  1. secretthrowaway

    secretthrowaway Fapstronaut

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    *potential trigger warnings*

    So disclaimer. I'm 18, been masturbating since I was 14. After a while, I started using my imagination instead of porn. There was never a single time in my life where I had to use porn because my dick couldn't get hard by its imagination.

    When I first started watching porn, I only really watched the "teasing". like ass worship and tit grabbing. I'd love to have sex, but for some reason back then seeing vaginal sex just seemed "gross" to me. just the angle would make me never want to masturbate. I would also almost never watch blowjobs or anal. But last year, I decided that it's OK as long as the angle makes it female focused.

    So pretty much, I know I won't ever get into more hardcore porn because it's just so gross for me. I've gone 75 days without peeking at porn or masturbating but now my brain is rationalizing that I have healthy control. I rarely masturbate more than once a day, and my PMO sessions never last longer than 30 minutes.
     
  2. PathOfReform

    PathOfReform Fapstronaut

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    I wouldn't say that there's healthy PMO. Maybe not really harmless at best.
    This is how I started: Pulled up some nude pics without looking for the perfect ones, just pulled up female nudes in five minutes, jacked it for a bit and was done with it. Then it
    "evolved" into me watching porn for 30-40 minutes every day and when I got some free time alone at home and it gradually became worse.

    Of course, not watching porn is always the better option. I suggest you try to make it a deal of once in a while rather than on a daily basis. Limit yourself to a quick session every 2-3 days and don't look for the "perfect video". If you can just use your imagination and not watch porn, that'd be even better.
    Just don't let it continue the way it is right now, because this is how addicts are created - it starts from a harmless habit and turns into a living nightmare where you become dependant on porn and eventually quesiton your own sexuality.
     
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  3. Christian Fox

    Christian Fox Fapstronaut

    That's what every one thinks at first. Nobody starts watching porn and goes for the really bad stuff first. But that's the thing about addiction. It draws you in slowly, and if you don't stop now, you will look at yourself ten years from now, wondering how you could have become what you are. Do not think you have this under control. The only way to control this is by not doing it. This is not like "soft" drugs like alcohol which is terribly dangerous, but actually healthy in very small doses. Porn does only do harm. It completely wrecks your brain. As you describe yourself, there seems to not have been that much damage done yet, but eventually you don't want any damage done to your brain which can be avoided.
    So here's my advice: leave it. There is no such thing as healthy pmo.
     
  4. IWantToChange:')

    IWantToChange:') Fapstronaut

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    Yes I agree. Just even the softest of the soft is bad so ALL SEXUALITY IS BAD. Just quit all.
     
  5. DalyStrgle

    DalyStrgle Fapstronaut

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    So I, like you, thought I had this p thing completely under control. My wife is a nursing student who studies constantly. Many nights going to bed alone and knowing she would not be up for hours. Looking at p has been in my life for more than 2 decades. My longest streak without pmo was 60 days. Then it creeps in. Forums on Facebook with half naked girls, then twitter. Did you know Twitter is a full onnporn site. Who knew. I found out. Then all of a sudden it is 30-60 minutes every night knowing my wife is down stairs.

    It starts slow then builds and builds. The perfect girl, perfect video, perfect scene, perfect fetish until not much gets you going.

    I am back in the forum now and on day 4. Going a bit nuts but doing ok. As Christian fox stated, it starts like slow habit. Every once in a while until you realize it has quietly taken over your life in the shadows where no one knows but you.
     
  6. secretthrowaway

    secretthrowaway Fapstronaut

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    How long did it take for you to change? Because it's taken me four years to even be cool with "vanilla" porn lol. But I agree, realistically I'd like to use my imagination more than porn.

    Thank you for the response. But don't you think it's weird that it's taken me four years to even get used to "vanilla" porn?
    not all sexuality is bad, lol.
    thank you for your response.
     
  7. PathOfReform

    PathOfReform Fapstronaut

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    It took me around 3 years+- for my addiction to become something I depended on. Although, there were days I didn't even view porn, when I did the sessions became longer and longer.
    Then it took me one week and a half for it to escalate for the MUCH worse.
    Before that fateful week(this is my name for it)I was relatively better. Still was addicted to an extent and some days I spent hours viewing porn very late into the night. Sometimes even up until the sun came up. Note that I was solely attracted to girls, barely viewed any porn involving actual penises and guys because it turned me off. All I needed is a tease, the girl to grab her privates or take off her bra and I pitched a tent in like 1-2 seconds. But that week I had all the free time I wanted, and I used the absolute majority of it viewing porn and slowly diving deeper into shittier categories like gay furry porn and transwomen to a degree where I couldn't get hard to my good old girl on girl/virtual sexpovs or any actual naked female. It just didn't do it for me. With it came the anxieties, the fears of me possibly being gay. It messed with my head REALLY bad for several days and I thought about killing myself several times(Although, those suicidal feelings were never serious like someone with depression for example, but not pleasant at all nonetheless).
    You could easily escalate there if you let your habbit grow stronger or decide you wanna watch porn for more than 30 minutes one day, maybe discover new categories that will turn you on in an instant, something that you'd view as "perfect" and decide you wanna "Explore" them more.

    Who knows, you might be a different case and you will never escalate to such an extent. But do you think it's worth taking your chances for some very momentary pleasure that sometimes results in you regretting you wasted time on it?

    I say quit while you still get the chance to do so without breaking a sweat. Go, waste those minutes in the gym, going out with friends and interacting with actual people, women especially.
     
  8. Romans 6 23

    Romans 6 23 Fapstronaut

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    ^What everyone else sais.

    I started with my imagination. then upgraded to victoria secret catalog, then its nude pics, then videos but short sessions. Then you begin to hunt for the "perfect video". Eventually those aren't satisfying and you will look at more hardcore stuff.

    check out yourbrainonporn.com
    It can explain why porn is unhealthy. There is no healthy amount of porn. I'm not even talking from a moral or spiritual perspective. Porn is bad for your brain. Our brains did not evolve to be exposed to this kind of stuff. In just a short 30 min porn session we can see more sex and different women than our grandfathers saw in their entire life.
     

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